Dream: The Healthier We Are On The Inside…

The Healthier We Are On The Inside…
By David Sunfellow
First published Saturday, November 20, 2010
Links updated Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Background Information:

While I’ve been aware of and working with manifestation principles for many years (we create our reality through the power of our thoughts, emotions, intentions), lately I’ve been getting a near-constant dose of reminders. My work with near-death experiences, for example, has led me to a tidal wave of stories wherein people describe how our inner world creates everything we experience in the outer world (for a good example of this, read this amazing interview with Anita Moorjani). A couple days ago, I was reminded of another amazing interview I encountered several years ago. In this interview, Andrew Cohen spoke with Peter Ragnar about a variety of manifestation-related issues. While almost everything Ragnar said struck gold with me, several parts of the interview leapt out with renewed vigor this time. Here’s one example:

“We have a wild boar — I mean, you ought to see this thing. He’s got a mane like a big black lion and burning red eyes — especially at night — and these big tusks. It would scare the hell out of anybody if they saw him. We call him by name; I call him Rasputin. He comes running up and dances around in a circle on the deck. He loves us. And this thing is totally wild. If a stranger came here, they’d never see this happen. They wouldn’t see a bear, they wouldn’t see a deer, and they certainly wouldn’t see the coyotes. The birds leave, too, when the vibrations are wrong or off.

“Now, what does that tell you about life? All life is one, and if you’re in harmony with it, you can walk out into the middle of a forest, walk up to a strange deer, and touch it. The first time a mama bear came, I was out in the woods. I laid down in front of her, and she came over and sniffed me. And I showed her that I was totally surrendered, that I wasn’t going to hurt her. I have not one ounce of fear or negativity about these animals. You know, she was pregnant, and she brought her three cubs. She brought them right to our bedroom door, and we babysat the cubs while she went off and had some free time. This is on a regular basis. I’ve got photographs of this. The cubs would come in the bedroom, and we’d watch them until she came back half an hour later. And then off they’d go with their mama, because there’s no disconnect. There is no separation. It’s all one beautiful picture. However, when people with other energies come — people with fears and apprehensions — they don’t see a thing. The world changes. It’s a different world…”

While the kind of relationship that Ragnar says he has with animals is something to ponder by itself, what leapt out at me this time were the last three sentences: “when people with other energies come — people with fears and apprehensions — they don’t see a thing. The world changes. It’s a different world…”

I thought about this all day — how people can literally be in the same space and see, feel, experience different things. Or, alternately, how we can draw experiences to ourselves (good and bad; wonderful and traumatic) that other people may be completely unaware of and be unable to experience themselves.

And that night I had a dream.

After repeating several scenes that reminded me of childhood wounds, and suggesting that I was inappropriately hanging on to and feeding off these wounds, the dream passed along this message:

“The healthier we are on the inside, the healthier the world looks to us on the outside. Instead of projecting our own woundedness on the world, and then feeling compelled to fix all the problems we see reflected back to us, we stop projecting, relax, and begin to see everything in a new, more beautiful light.”

Now that, I thought, was insightful — and definitely a message I needed to hear. While I’m still trying to understand how this dynamic works, it is clear to me that I often project my own hurts on the world around me and then spend time trying to make things feel OK within by fixing all the things I perceive to be wrong on the outside. What would the world look like if I was healthy enough not to funnel everything through my wounds? Maybe everything would look different. Maybe I would feel more relaxed and see less of a need to fix things. Maybe what look like problems now would disappear, or, if not disappear, loose their charge because they would be seen from a larger, deeper, more all-encompassing perspective.

Something to think about. Here’s another way to say what I said above:

“When we look out upon the world, and see things that desperately need to be fixed and, at the same time, feel a desperate need to fix the broken things we see, this is more a reflection of us, and our woundedness, than the actual state of the world.”

“Attempts to change the world that are based primarily on projection and compulsion are misguided, ineffective, and counterproductive.”

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"Unlike spiritual paths that arose from the ideas and inner experiences of lone, isolated human beings, the path presented by near-death experiences is emerging as a direct, grassroots revelation that millions of people from all over the world are receiving and sharing. If we explore this newly emerging path deeply enough, we discover that all religions, philosophies, and cultures are honored; that science and spirituality are celebrated; that both the human and spiritual side of our natures are cherished and embraced. In short, near-death experiences present us with a universal, all-inclusive, perfectly integrated spiritual path that revolves around three core truths: 1. We are all one; 2. Love is the essence of life; 3. We are here, in this world, to become perfect embodiments of the Divine." -- David Sunfellow

“Merely learning about the near-death experience has effects similar to those reported by NDErs.” -- Kenneth Ring,
from "Lessons from the Light"

“For me personally, I’m showing more love to others now than before I started my near-death-experience studies. My understanding of near-death experiences has made me a better doctor. I face life with more courage and confidence. I believe NDErs really do bring back a piece of the afterlife. When NDErs share their remarkable experiences, I believe a piece of the afterlife, in some mysterious way, becomes available to us all.” -- Jeffrey Long, "Evidence of the Afterlife"

"I'm not asking you to believe anything. I'm simply telling you what I believe. And I have no idea what the next life will be like. Whatever I saw was only from the doorway, so to speak. But it was enough to convince me totally of two things from that moment on: One, that our consciousness does not cease with physical death; that it becomes, in fact, keener and more aware than ever. And secondly, that how we spend our time on earth, the kind of relationships we build, is vastly more important than we can know." -- George G. Ritchie, M.D., summarizing his famous near-death experience which helped launch the near-death experience movement. From his book, "Return From Tomorrow"

"Many events in my life I experienced, but not from how I remembered it, but from the point of view... [of] how the people, animals, environment experienced it around me. I felt it as my own. The times I had made others happy, and sad, I felt it all as they did. It was very apparent that every single thought, word, and action affects everything around us and indeed the entire universe. Trees, plants, animals too. I have been a long-term vegetarian since about 18 years old and I know this was appreciated and is a good choice in life. Spiritually it seemed to show proof of respect for all life, and even seemed to balance some of the negative and wicked things I have done in my life. In the life review we judge ourselves; no one else does. The light/god did not. But with no ego left -- and no lies -- we can't hide from what we have done and feel remorse and shame, especially in the presence of this love and light. Some of the things in life we think of as important don't seem to be so important there. But some of the insignificant things from the material human perspective are very important spiritually." -- Justin U describing his near-death experience on the NDERF website

"I have never interviewed anyone who had a near-death experience who told me that they came back to make more money or to spend more time at their jobs away from their families... Instead, they become convinced that they need to be more loving and kind. They react to their experience by living life to its fullest. They believe their lives have a purpose, even if that purpose is obscure to them. Invariably it involves concepts such as love of family or service to others. They seem to know that the love they create while living will be reflected and radiated back to them when they die." -- Melvin Morse, M.D., from his book, Parting Visions

“I went into this tunnel, and I came into this room that was just beautiful. God held me, He called me by name, and He told me, ‘Mary Jo, you can’t stay.’ And I wanted to stay. I protested. I said, ‘I can’t stay? Why not?’ And I started talking about all the reasons; I was a good wife, I was a good mother, I did 24-hour care with cancer patients. And He said, ‘Let me ask you one thing -- have you ever loved another the way you’ve been loved here?’ And I said, ‘No, it’s impossible. I’m a human.’ And then He just held me and said, ‘You can do better.’ ” -- Mary Jo Rapini, describing her near-death experience

"I asked them if there were other worlds. And they said, yes, the universe is full of other worlds -- and there are other dimensions of other physical universes and those are full of other worlds." -- Howard Storm describing his NDE in "My Descent Into Death"

"The Light kept changing into different figures, like Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, mandalas, archetypal images and signs. I asked the Light, “What is going on here? Please, Light, clarify yourself for me... The Light responded. The information transferred to me was that during your life after death experience your beliefs shape the kind of feedback you are getting before the Light. If you were a Buddhist or Catholic or Fundamentalist, you get a feedback loop of your own stuff. You have a chance to look at it and examine it, but most people do not. As the Light revealed itself to me, I became aware that what I was really seeing was our higher Self matrix." -- Mellen-Thomas Benedict

"God gave everything to us, everything is here -- this is where it's at. And what we are into now is God's exploration of God through us. People are so busy trying to become God that they ought to realize that we are already God and God is becoming us. That's what it is really about. When I realized this, I was finished with the void, and wanted to return to this creation..." -- Mellen-Thomas Benedict

“In one of my visits with the Light I was told that the near-death experience... would become more and more popular and it would have an affect on the entire world when a critical mass was hit and all these people have died and come back and are telling you that there is a lot more going on than we think." -- Mellen-Thomas Benedict